Running Lisp in Production (2015)

Re:Running Lisp in Production (2015) by kgwgk on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @08:51AM (#23322380)

You've convinced me, there is no difference.

Why wouldn't anyone want to write code like this:

  Expr(:call, :+, :a, Expr(:call, :*, :b, :c), 1)

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Re:Running Lisp in Production (2015) by snicker7 on Thursday May 28, 2020 @01:51PM (#23340241)

If you remove the Expr, you get something that kind of looks like Lisp.

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Re:Running Lisp in Production (2015) by kgwgk on Thursday May 28, 2020 @02:29PM (#23340650)

Yes, if you remove a few elements you get (+ a (* b c) 1), as I said a few messages back, which is lisp code and is also lisp data. So you can treat code as data!

You can of course parse code in any language and treat it as data (and it may resemble lisp code!) but it’s not quite the same thing.

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